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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Process of Planning a Race Part 3: Race Day!

Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared a mini series of sorts about the process of planning a race.

It’s important to note that I am not a professional “race planner” – I’m a registered nurse who is very involved with our local American Cancer Society. In the process of it all, we decided to host a “Gleaux Run 5K” and I volunteered to head it all up. This was my first race to host and it was a huge one for our area so I was rather nervous. Thankfully, everything went off without any major issues and the race ran smooth (literally speaking)!

We had over 640 registered runners/walkers at our event and we raised almost $15,000 in the fight against cancer!!

Here’s links to Part 1 and 2 and also a link to a recap of the race itself:

What a great success! I so love your v-logs! While watching, I so wish I was closer to be able to participate it looked like so much fun! It's nice to see how much work goes on to setting up one of those events, something I would love to do one day.@heatherlas

I had to just go back and read through your entire series, because this caught my attention.A month ago I was contacted and asked to help put on a local 5k (it was last Saturday) and I said yes not knowing what I was really getting into.I attended the first planning meeting only to discover that the race they were planning was in about a month and they hadn't even picked a course or called on permits... I ended up being the only person on the committee who knew anything about race planning and I really only know from what I experience while running other races. Though I would never help plan one that quick again, it ended up going pretty well. We had about 125 participants which I decided was pretty good for a first time race that we only promoted for about 20 days... (not my choice) Anyhow, I really enjoyed your series, I wish I had come across this a few weeks ago as I was helping with the planning! I bookmarked it for future use though:)

That's really neat! Bravo to you for helping pull off an event in such a short amount of time - I would have been in panic mode! 125 participants is a great number - that's the average 5K here! Great job!! :)

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